Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-02-25
NATIONAL NEWS.

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died at his home in New York on the 18th
inst. Indictments are on file against him
for being party to the giving OF brides
TO the Doodle aldermen.
Judge McLeary OF Montana supreme
court, says that the lowest estimate OF
the Montana cattle loss for the season is
% per cent, while many cattlemen say 1t
will be from 40 TO 30 per cent One Bore
man owner will lose 10000 out OF a herd of
$4,000
Bryan Ohio. is fairly wild over tho dis
covery of oil. The purity OF the oil and
the amount OF the flow is a great surprise
TO old oil men.
San Francisco was four days without
mails from the east, owing TO snow
blockade on the Central Pacific.
A terrific storm passed over the west
and northwest on the 18th inst. Rain
lightning and snow caused great damage.
A warehouse in New York. containing
10000 bales of cotton. was struck by light
ming the other day entailing a loss of 80
GOO
George Schroedell and Peter Schwellen-
bach. two school boys Of jefferson Wis,
quarreled abaut some trining matter when
the former stabbed his companion % the
heart.
j. c. Pendegrass' residence near Rose
vile. Ark, was destroyed by fire on the
18th and his five little boy, who were
sleeping up stairs and could not be res
cued. were burned to death.
The Chicago Milwaukee x st. Paul rail
road company has equipped several pass
euger trains with steam heating apparatus.
The experiment has proved decided sue
cess
The sherifr's and clerks office Of Logan
county. Ark. were robbed the other night.
The robbers occurred about s30oO1
Anumher OF places in Minnesota ex-
perienced severe earthquake shocks on the
18th inst.
Lincoln Neb. had a mud shower the
other day.
Borton Corbett. the man who shot j.
Wilkes Booth, ha, become insane. and has
been sent 10 the Kansas asylum
Gen. Butler won hi, suit against J. H.
Lester.
The local board OF health of De, Moines
arrested and quarantinel a clergyman
who conducted the funeral services of
children who died from dphtheria, con
trary TO regulations prohibiting public
funerals in such CASES He appealed 70 the
state board OF health. which affirmed the
action OF the local board
The American board Of commissioners
for foreign missions has rejected II. {.
Morse, a Yale divinity student, who APP
piled for a license 10 preach, because he be
lieved in future probation.
The minority of the foreign relations
committee of the house recommend the
passage Of the senate retaliation bill in or
der 20 savetime.
The Secretary of the Interior thinks that
another pension office should be eStab-
liihcd
Carpenters and builders OF New Haven,
Conn. demand nine hours day after
May 1T
The secretary OF the interior concurs in
the recommendation of the commissioner
OF pensions that provi ion be made by
congress 60. the establishment OF an ad-
ditional pension agency The commits
sioner .ays New Orleans would be the
most suitable location for the new agency
Il j. reported that the Apaches are leav-
Ing their reservation in Southern New
Mexico in large numbers for their old
reservation in southern Colorado.
Gen W T Sherman was rendered re-
ception in New York the other night by
Abel Smith post. &. \. K
DR.. John II. Douglass, General Grants
physician. is preparing complete history
OF 1.-THE generals case.
Major Gordon. who has more relics OF
the Custer massacre than anybody else,
ha OIL do 10
ssO)OO0.
John \. Logan, jr., has sold his interests
in the real estate firm in Washington, and
will 20 into business at Youngstown, O.
Congressman Akin OF south Carolina,
is not expected t. live. His illness is
caused bya wound in the lungs received at
the battle Of Gettysburg.
Nancy A Murphy. aged -, is suing for
divorce from. her liege lord o. aged "A,
on the ground of incompatihility OF
temper.
The Minnesota thresher company was
organized in New York few days ago,
with s5.o0O.0OO capital.
Prof +. f. Barnard OF Vanderbilt uni
versity. Nashville Tenn, has discovered
another comet.
The G.. A. r. of Illinois at its annual
state emcampment adopted resolutions
demanding that congress pass the depend
ent pension bill over the presidents veto
James &. Barrett, n leading member OF
the bar in Rutland. Vt, was Instantly
killed the other night while tobogganng
A piece of board which formed part of the
bottom OF the chute had become splintered
and displaced. and projected into the slide
pointing upward The board struck Mr..
Barrett on the under aud inner side OF the
thigh. extending up through il and his
abdomen and coming out at his back One
OF the ladies on the toboggan was badly
injured and may die
The governor of Kansas has signed the
bill confering municipal suffrage upon
women.
The Ohio legislature has repealed the
bill providing separate schools for the col
ored cbildrsp.
Can't VIM Turtle, one of the most